Thursday, 27 September 2018

"There are some in the cabinet who still loathe Brexit and regard
Chequers as the UK’s opening offer. Philip Hammond, the Chancellor, is
expected to push to stay in the customs union and makes no attempt to
disguise his concerns about Brexit.

In cabinet meetings this week, he
complained that a restaurant in his Surrey constituency can’t hire
enough staff to wait all the tables — proof, he said, that the UK needed
low-skilled immigration.

But as one exasperated cabinet minister put it
to me afterwards, it didn’t seem to have occurred to the Chancellor
that maybe the restaurant should just pay its staff more. And that the
balance of power between workers and low-wage businesses might be
precisely why so many voted for Brexit in the first place."

Philip, economies are not just supply sided they are also demand driven. Market forces will sort out the imbalance of low skilled EU workers, one way or another!

Monday, 24 September 2018

New Labour policy. Labour MPs will vote down May deal, cos it fails six tests, push for GE, fail to get one, and then campaign for a public vote in which the choice is solely between the May deal that Labour has already rejected and no deal/Armageddon. What an offer.

Wednesday, 12 September 2018

NEW Extraordinary reports of open plotting against the PM at a meeting of the European Research Group of Tory MPs today. One source says there were 50 Tory MPs in the room "just discussing the matter openly"and "wargaming" how to get rid of the Prime Minister.

The Times reports that Jeremy Corbyn has been summoned for a personal briefing by the head
of MI5 on the terrorist threat to Britain amid questions about his
approach to national security.

Andrew Parker, the
director-general of the Security Service, is expected to give the Labour
leader a “full briefing” on the threat from Islamists in Britain and
Isis jihadists returning from the Middle East to plot atrocities on home
soil.

The MI5 boss also wants to prime Corbyn on the extent of
hostile Russian espionage activity and the growing threat from far-right
extremists.

Corbyn had been asked to attend the briefing yesterday, but he has had an attack of cold feet and postponed it.